Stepping Out from Behind a Pseudonym

It seems like a lifetime ago when French Wedding Style was first conceived, back when wedding blogs were a relatively new entity and Facebook and Twitter where the only social media channels to be concerned about – told you it’s been a while.

Back then I was employed full time in my professional marketing position, including being heavily involved with social media. As French Wedding Style grew from an idea to becoming a reality, I had a choice to make about managing the blog and with pseudonyms and nicknames being common place amongst bloggers, I created an alter-ego, Monique Mariage who then changed to Monique Trulove.

As I look back now, it was a dilemma but it didn’t seem out of place in the blogging industry and so Monique came to life.

Well when I say life, Monique was for the first 4 years only an artists sketch of me.

However over time and the more I came out from behind the screen, attending real life events and people wanting to work with me directly, I began to feel more awkward. Due to many collaborations and consultancy commissions people knew my name, Laura Payne-Stanley, but making referrals or in person, they never had a clue what to call me.

Heck, I myself stumbled many a time trying to explain who I was, and the relationship between French Wedding Style and my coaching and consultancy work.

So with French Wedding Style becoming Styled Media Ltd, I decided it was time to put on my big blogger pants and say proudly that I am Laura Payne-Stanley, the person behind the blogger Monique Trulove.